Check out these images form a restored Rutt/Etra Analog Video Synthesizer. Analog sine waves galore!!!

http://flickr.com/photos/lastdavid/sets/72157603778743583/ 

Here’s a wonderful collection of photos of the Computer History Museum in Mountainview, CA. Lot’s of great switches and knobies!

Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers

If you don’t read JWZ, here is a good reason to start.

Try the Gender Guesser!

I’m getting my signs ready and heading down to the local fish joint:

http://www.godhatesshrimp.com/

And, then I’m going to help save the tree octopus… I think God wants me to do that too:

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

This is rich. Five senior military leaders representing five nations have authored a report advising NATO on future policy. Among its more charming excerpts:

The first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction.

Indeed! Because, really, there’s no better way to “prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction” than “the first use of nuclear weapons!” Unless, of course, you consider nuclear weapons to be weapons of mass destruction…

In related news, these same military strategists advised teenagers to prevent pregnancy by having a quick fuck.

OMG this is soooooo cute!
 

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger, they loot even the ocean: they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor; neither the wealth of the east nor the west can satisfy them: they are the only people who behold wealth and indigence with equal passion to dominate. They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.

      —Tacitus, writing in the year 98, about the Roman Empire

((More on this passage from Tacitus)

h/t: Tom Engelhardt

How could I have missed this? Calvin and Hobbes enact “All Your Base…”